Thomas Brett
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Working In Abundance, Working Towards Thriving
Every so often while making music it occurs to me how I’m working in, working against, and working with, abundance. The abundance is the number of sounds known and unknown in my old 2014 computer. Many of these sounds I haven’t yet encountered, some of these sounds I’ve encountered but forgotten where they reside, and Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Dave Eggers’ “The Every” (2021)
“Because their devices dinged them a few times a minute, their minds were reshaped to the jittery, needy psyche that ruled the digital realm. In a few short decades they’d transformed proud and free animals—humans—and made them into endlessly acquiescent dots on screens. How many people live in a state of aggressive truth-seeking?” Dave Eggers, Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Jason Karp On Rhythm
“It’s a lot about rhythm and trying to find that rhythm and let the rhythm carry you so you don’t feel like you’re having to push the whole time. Let the rhythm carry you through the whole way. It makes the rhythm bigger: when you have more than one person there it’s the collective rhythm Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: John McPhee On Form, Structure, and Scale
“When you are close like this, nearing satisfaction on something that has taken a very long time do to, you don’t want to be tempted to decide too soon that you are done. You need to add time for a final assessment of the over-all form and structure before removing those bits of clay and Continue reading
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